Surfin USSR is from the album called \"I Never Made a Record I Didn't Like\" and is Ray Stevens' twenty-fifth studio album, and his fifth for MCA Records, released in 1988.
\"Surfin' U.S.S.R.\" is one of two singles that were lifted from the album: \"Surfin' U.S.S.R.\" and \"The Day I Tried to Teach Charlene Mackenzie How to Drive.\"
The \"Surfin' U.S.S.R.\" single was accompanied with a music video (his second). The song blends the sound of the Beach Boys with the real world events of the Soviet Union.
The album cover shows Stevens as Will Rogers performing a rope trick. Rogers' most often quote is \"I never met a man I didn't like\" which served as the obvious inspiration for the album's title.
The third track, \"Mama's in the Sky With Elvis,\" was previously featured on the second volume of the Greatest Hits package of Stevens' hits; it makes its first appearance on a studio album.